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Proto-Germanic language - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_languageProto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages.. Proto-Germanic eventually developed from pre-Proto-Germanic into three Germanic branches during the fifth century BC to fifth century AD: West Germanic, East Germanic and North Germanic, which …
Proto-Indo-European language - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_languageProto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. Its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages. No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists. Far more work has gone into reconstructing PIE than any other proto-language, and it is the best …
Germanic languages - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languagesThe Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa.The most widely spoken Germanic language, English, is also the world's most widely spoken language with an estimated 2 billion speakers. All Germanic languages are …
West Germanic languages - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germanic_languagesThe West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages (the others being the North Germanic and the extinct East Germanic languages). The West Germanic branch is classically subdivided into three branches: Ingvaeonic, which includes English and Frisian, Istvaeonic, which includes Dutch and its close relatives, …
Indo-European languages - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languagesThe Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.Some European languages of this family, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, and Spanish, have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across several continents.
North Germanic languages - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Germanic_languagesThe North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages.The language group is also referred to as the Nordic languages, a direct translation of the most common term used among Danish, …
Brittonic languages - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittonic_languagesThe modern Brittonic languages are generally considered to all derive from a common ancestral language termed Brittonic, British, Common Brittonic, Old Brittonic or Proto-Brittonic, which is thought to have developed from Proto-Celtic or early Insular Celtic by the 6th century BC.. A major archaeogenetics study uncovered a migration into southern Britain in the middle to late …
Dacian language - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacian_languageDacian / ˈ d eɪ ʃ ə n / is an extinct language, generally believed to be Indo-European, that was spoken in the Carpathian region in antiquity. In the 1st century, it was probably the predominant language of the ancient regions of Dacia and Moesia and possibly of some surrounding regions. The language was extinct by the 4th century AD. While there is general agreement among …
Balto-Slavic languages - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balto-Slavic_languagesProto-language: Proto-Balto-Slavic: Subdivisions: Slavic; ... Gray and Atkinson's (2003) application of language-tree divergence analysis supports a genetic relationship between the Baltic and Slavic languages, dating the split of the family to about 1400 BCE. ... Proto-Germanic is the only other Indo-European language that inserts a high ...
Proto-language - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-languageIn the tree model of historical linguistics, a proto-language is a postulated ancestral language from which a number of attested languages are believed to have descended by evolution, forming a language family.Proto-languages are usually unattested, or partially attested at best. They are reconstructed by way of the comparative method.. In the family tree metaphor, a proto …